You can join up to 10 minutes early. If you try to join the meeting at any other time, you will get an error that the meeting doesn't exist. First timers: Test your connection well before the meeting. Follow the link and select Run Browser Test (in the blue area to the right of the MeetingPlace screen). {{Box

These are not yet ready, but you may want to know what is on the horizon.

These are not yet ready, but you may want to know what is on the horizon.

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*[[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Tasks Church|Prep county page]] for Church records. 1) Copy the church records blurb to the county. 2) Describe and link entries for any churches other than LDS to the FHLC. - check the centennial histories for other churches, FHLC, etc.

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*[[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Tasks Church LDS Phase 2|Church LDS Phase 2]] Add boundaries and links to church units and a history timeline for each LDS community, using information from Jenson’s Encyclopedic History of the Church. The active Utah WikiProject will focus on major areas, such as Salt Lake, Cache, Davis, Weber, Utah and Washington Counties.

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*[[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Tasks Church LDS Phase 4|Church LDS Phase 4]] Once Phase 3 is completed, compare information with the Mormon Subject, Locality File, which is located in the US/Canada staff area of the FamilySearch Library. This phase will need to be accomplished by missionaries there.

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*[[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Tasks Church Other|Church Other Denominations]]. Make specific links to the Library Catalog items for those denominations. People wishing to add more detail and a timeline are welcome to adapt the existing shell (Remove Jenson's reference, Remove link to Church Historical Department, etc.

*[[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Tasks Histories|History section of the counties]] Link to online histories of each county.

*[[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Tasks Histories|History section of the counties]] Link to online histories of each county.

*[[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Tasks Cemeteries|Cemeteries in the counties]] Link to websites that can be linked specifically to the counties.

*[[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Tasks Cemeteries|Cemeteries in the counties]] Link to websites that can be linked specifically to the counties.

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*[[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Tasks County Repositories|Repositories in the county: libraries, museums, etc.]] Phase 1: Add contact information for local libraries, societies, and other record holders in each county.

Register your interests in Utah counties or topics. By registering, you will be invited to share ideas and suggestions, you will be kept up-to-date, and you won't be contacted for everything else.

Register your interests in Utah counties or topics. By registering, you will be invited to share ideas and suggestions, you will be kept up-to-date, and you won't be contacted for everything else.

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=== Counties–Style Guide ===

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Revision as of 16:43, 11 December 2012

You can help thousands who will use the FamilySearch Wiki to help them find their people who lived in Utah at some point.

The project will begin in earnest January 1, 2012 and is expected to be very active for six to twelve months. With people like YOU, the Utah Genealogical Association (UGA), and a few at the Family History Library, the Utah-related pages are becoming easily understood, inviting, and oh, so useful!

c. Brevity. Be succinct as possible without sacrificing purpose or clarity.

d. Documentation. Use footnote(s) to identify the source(s) of the content you are creating.

First Focus

First, basic content will be added to the county pages. Some tasks are identified, with step-by-step how to do them for the project. You are welcome to suggest additional project tasks or add information to other topics in a county. First focus:

Links to online resources: indexes and/or images of records or how to use those records.

Local repositories (libraries, archives, museums) and the records and resources they have.

Links to catalogs such as the Family History Library catalog, Google books, and WorldCat among others.

Experimental County page shows the current focus for county topics. No county is finished for those topics until listed as completed.

The Utah page is also being revamped to appeal to and guide beginners better. Since this is also experimental, it will be done in a "Sandbox" page, which has not yet been identified. AdkinsWH 01:27, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

Community Meetings

Online meetings with focus on Wiki pages for Utah.

Share ideas, suggest improvements

Get news and progress reports.

Attend from home, at a library, or wherever you have an internet connection and a telephone.

Things You Can Do

Church LDS Phase 1a Focus on stakes per Jenson's Encyclopedic History... to be sure all wards are included in Phase 1.

Tasks not yet ready

These are not yet ready, but you may want to know what is on the horizon.

Prep county page for Church records. 1) Copy the church records blurb to the county. 2) Describe and link entries for any churches other than LDS to the FHLC. - check the centennial histories for other churches, FHLC, etc.

Church LDS Phase 2 Add boundaries and links to church units and a history timeline for each LDS community, using information from Jenson’s Encyclopedic History of the Church. The active Utah WikiProject will focus on major areas, such as Salt Lake, Cache, Davis, Weber, Utah and Washington Counties.

Church LDS Phase 3 Audit to assure that Phase 1 has been accomplished for all Utah LDS units. (We estimate that 10-20% will be missed.) This task will include comparing Phase 1 with Jenson's, Jaussi and Chaston, and others. All details of this task have not yet been identified.

Church LDS Phase 4 Once Phase 3 is completed, compare information with the Mormon Subject, Locality File, which is located in the US/Canada staff area of the FamilySearch Library. This phase will need to be accomplished by missionaries there.

Church Other Denominations. Make specific links to the Library Catalog items for those denominations. People wishing to add more detail and a timeline are welcome to adapt the existing shell (Remove Jenson's reference, Remove link to Church Historical Department, etc.

Family Associations/Societies Links to organizations based on descendency (e.g. Jared Pratt Family Association) Dggard 08:49, 14 November 2011 (UTC) Great idea! We will implement this. AdkinsWH 00:03, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Links to topics in the Family History Library Catalog This allows only the best items to be highlighted in the Wiki while informing users of other records or resources that are available. This also makes it so the Wiki won't have to be updated each time new things are added to the sites included.

County GenWeb Links Link to databases on county GenWeb databases, with information to help users decide to click or not.

County Headings 2 Comments on the Discussion page for county headings have prompted some changes that need to be made to each county.

County Headings The genealogical community has given careful consideration to the headings and their arrangement in each county. The Utah county headings were created some time ago, and now need to be "remodeled," so to speak. That is the purpose of this task. It requires attention to detail, but is otherwise an easy task to accomplish.

County History List by year historical events that affected the records and the record-keeping in each county, such as settlement and migration, or natural events, such as flooding, drought, or fires.

County Courthouse Find uncopyrighted images of the courthouse (historical or current) and upload them. List their contact information (address, phone, email), including a link to website, addresses, etc.

The top of the page: image, chart, chart contents, chart colors: accepted sufficiently to start putting it on each county. Started to move the chart at the top of the page and adapt it to each countyAdkinsWH 15:15, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Schedule

2011 12 October Show and tell and brainstorm with US/Canada Consultants and Utah moderators 15 October show and tell WikiProject Utah to Logan Family History conference. Begin recruiting, set up training.

Begin recruiting for beginning of Jan community kickoff of the project

Dec 31, 2011

Approve Utah treasurer hunt rules/guidelines and prizes.

Complete and approve project rules

Approve a project completion measuring tool (possibly modeled after the one for Illinois)

2011

31 Dec Complete descriptions and step-by-step guides for tasks to be accomplished during the Utah Wiki project.

Tasks will be planned for those who prefer tasks that don't require a lot of thinking or original writing, as well as those who prefer more challenging tasks.

2012

1 Jan Start weekly meetings with the community and contributors to report progress, give training, and brainstorm additional ideas for the project.

[TBD] With much of the planned content in Utah counties completed, the Utah treasure hunt for other records and resources begins. This will be a contest, with prizes from FamilySearch, UGA, and others.

[TBD] The Utah treasure hunt contest ends.

[TBD] Utah Wiki Project becomes inactive as a project, although many will continue contributing to its pages.

Project Guidelines

The following guidlines will be followed by the WikiProject Utah members until end of the project, tentatively scheduled for TBD 2012.

Vetted content

Before you add similar words to more than one Utah Wiki page, your words must be vetted and approved by any two other team members who are guided by rule #1 and agree with you on that way of presenting it.

Style

The first few weeks of the Utah project we will agree on a model style, and create at least one example page of it. To keep the project moving forward, NO style changes nor further discussion of changes will be allowed after that for the remainder of the project (tentatively until TBD 2012). Participants are expected to follow that style during the project.

Style includes but is not limited to:

Use of standard Utah templates

Headings (anything that would appear in a table of contents) match with FHL Catalog subject headings as much as possible Example: Beaver County, Utah

Heading levels: use levels three, four or five; avoid levels one and two

Order of presentation

Table of contents style or position (or lack of TOC)

image, table, or template positions or size; prefer sharp images relevant to the topic on the page

font

bold

italic for titles of published books

underline

indentation

bullets. Items under headings on county pages will be bulleted lists. Information describing the headings themselves will not be bulleted.

numbering

citations in footnote style

Please use the fullChicago Manual of Style footnote style (modified):

Author(s), followed by a comma

Title (book titles in italics)

Publication data in parenthesis:

- Publication place, followed by a colon

- Publisher

- Year of publication

- comma, and the the page number(s) followed by a period

Access information:

- link to free online copy, if any. IF a free online copy is available no further access data needs to be added.

Wording changes

Before changing the saved wording of another team member who followed these rules you must get their consent (except for obvious minor typos).

Links with purpose

The Wiki is not a links repository. It uses links to support the genealogical educational purpose of a page or section of a page. Show and explain links with an educational purpose in mind. Annotate each external link briefly but well enough for the reader to realize what they will be getting if they click that link.

Seek out local and unique

Seek out local and unique genealogical search strategies, records, or repositories and explain them to readers.

Describe each edit

Describe each edit in theSummaryfield before clicking the Savebutton.

Non-compliance

Non-compliance will result in work being reverted, or changed to follow these rules.

Templates

It has been decided to use templates for wording that will be used over and over in county, town, or other pages. This will allow changes to be made across all pages simultaneously.

If you wish to edit an existing template page, please post your proposed changes to the discussion page for that template before making changes. Please place a watch on templates you have written or edited. If no responses within 1 week, contact the team member(s) who created the original.

Before creating a template, click on the what templates already exist.

To create a new template that will be used on several pages for the Utah WikiProject:

1. Create a new page with the following name: Template:UtahCo[record type]2. Type the text for your template. Make sure that all concepts, sentence structure, and grammar are independent and can stand on their own if need be. 3. Add the category to the new template page using the following wikitext: <noinclude> [[Category:Templates for Utah pages]] </noinclude> . (Be sure to include the <noinclude> . Otherwise the category will also appear on all pages that merely have the template placed on them.) 4. Approve the wording with administrators of the Utah WikiProject Team. 5. Add the template to county pages using {{template page name}} Otherwise those pages will be added to the category Templates for Utah project.

To see a list of current existing templates for this project, click the category below "Templates for Utah project."